Has Supercell lost interest in Hay Day??

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Originally Posted by snakiddy

I am grateful to finally get an admission from someone at Supercell that the town tool rates were reduced. For months I tried to educate your support staff on that point, but they seemed to be reluctant to just state the truth.

Because you reduced the drop rate, people noticed. People complained. If people are complaining in large numbers, it should tell you that the drop rate (reduced for whatever obscure reason) needs to be increased. It needed to be increased as soon as you reduced it. To leave it reduced for months, even while complaints are stacking up and reports to support are filing in, is ... well, what is that? Please explain.

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You miss the entire point where mostly only complainers have incentive to come here and post their requests.
There are also people who loved the case, but didn't have any need to come here and post their compliments. :saywhat::saywhat:

Have you never visited forums during map-gate?? The complaints were 10 times worse than the rant over lack of TEMs. :facepalm::facepalm:

I have upgraded all of my town buildings to max XP during the period which you mentioned BTW.

As of now town drops are too high for TEMs (which is totally useless for people who play the town MOST), I have already started to advertise single TEMs, as my contribution to the next TEM gate, where we will be heard and the TEMs will be nerfed again.

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Originally Posted by snakiddy

I am grateful to finally get an admission from someone at Supercell that the town tool rates were reduced. For months I tried to educate your support staff on that point, but they seemed to be reluctant to just state the truth.

Because you reduced the drop rate, people noticed. People complained. If people are complaining in large numbers, it should tell you that the drop rate (reduced for whatever obscure reason) needs to be increased. It needed to be increased as soon as you reduced it. To leave it reduced for months, even while complaints are stacking up and reports to support are filing in, is ... well, what is that? Please explain.

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I, for one will start complain if they increase the TEM drop rate. Increasing TEM rate means reducing the drop rate of other EMs and tools. I have absolute no use for TEM, and I certainly do not want to go back to days that I need to hire Tom for axe/saw. I am still getting quite a bit TEM and maps each day, because I sell about around 20 at night. It possibly doesn't feel like enough for people still upgrading their town, but HD is not designed to have all your buildings upgraded to max within a couple of weeks. Also remember, you can only upgrade town so much, so one day you will join our side. The more TEM drops, the sooner that day will come XD

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Originally Posted by Nick[Supercell]

Unfortunately we don't have any plans to bring it back. At least for now.

Cheers,

Nick

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Awwww, bummer :( Those events were really fun I thought -- and they encouraged the social aspect of Hay Day, which was to help your friends and neighbors in the days before NHs.

Thanks for for coming here and answering questions. Here's mine:

Presumably the rationale for the existence of bots is to sell their generated EMs and leveled-up farms on the black market for real money (although I think there are fewer turn-key farms being created - the ones with everything stacked and wrapped, ready to open).

If the market for EMs is driving the proliferation of bots, have you discussed my 18-month old idea to change the amount of spaces per barn/silo upgrade from 50 per upgrade after 1000 to 75 per at 2500, 100 per at 5000, and 150 per at 7500? That will allow players to upgrade faster, and could reduce the market for bot-generated EMs.

Reducing the Diamond cost per EM from 8 (and even 5 in the Daily Deal) could also reduce the allure of bot-generated EMs.

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Originally Posted by snakiddy

"Back then." I think you and Nick are both focusing on mapgate, which is long over. Having too many drills is also long over. I'm talking about town tools in general which were nerfed in mid-November and only in the last couple of weeks have seen a slight comeback.

The town tool drop rate was drastically reduced. Many, many people reported it. The threads are still out there.

I don't think the town tool drop rate is reasonable at all right now.

What good change could ever take place by reducing the number of town tools AFTER mapgate is LONG over?

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Do you serve all townies or just pick up from your hood friends? I've found the town drop rate fine. I play town every day but do not pick up from my hood friends. The guys in my hood that do lots of personal train say that they find drop rate low. it may or may not be connected. The old rate was way too high. It is lower, but it needed to be or the town would be maxxed way too fast. I suppose it is just a matter of opinion. I also find the odd piece in DD, which tells me rate is good now.

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Originally Posted by prasanna

Ok, a new question..... have u guys got enough data to bring back "dump & drop" special events? It's boring to see the same old global trucks/boats event. If not, how long will it take u guys to calculate it?
It's been more than a year now since wr had dump & drop ones, i miss it :(

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After the nastiness on this forum when we missed the goal, I am not surprised that they never want to do them again.

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Originally Posted by camicami

Hello! It is I, person responsible for nerfing the town tools back then. The purpose it served was bringing the economy back to a reasonable balance. And the good change was... that it brought the economy back to a reasonable balance. We no longer see bucketloads of map pieces or hand drills in the DD.

The spawn rates were increased again some months ago (I don't remember for sure when).

Cheers,
Cami

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I find drop rate good now. Just enough to get me excited when I get one, not low enough to frustrate me. I end up upgrading at least one town building each week. I like that they are more balanced than the silo or barn, of which I am always short one or two out of three. If it was not for the derby I would never be able to upgrade silo and barn. I get to pick my prize, and of course pick the expansion item I never get.

I don't think the tem rates are too high now. There was a while back (before Nov, I thought) where they got too low. I literally stopped playing the town because the tem rate was so slow it was a bore. Since tweaks, I am back in the swing again. When you do not need tems, then of course the drop rate is too high! But the answer is not to tweak drop rates but for SC to provide a new feature that needs never-ending tems. :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by farmerClem

After the nastiness on this forum when we missed the goal, I am not surprised that they never want to do them again.

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Yea, I remember those days. So-called "positive" threads were started to combat all the "negative" threads. Players from the far reaches of the Earth who never posted before came on here just to complain. SC employees were apparently on vacation during the mayhem. It was good times!!! The forum was ALIVE!! Hated those drag/drop events tho :smirk: XD

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Originally Posted by farmerClem

After the nastiness on this forum when we missed the goal, I am not surprised that they never want to do them again.

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I believe the backlash on the forums when these goals were missed was because the prizes for the events were unique items. Missing a goal when the prize is not unique (5 diamonds or tools) is not the tragedy that missing the only chance for a fancy deco is. The events themselves have always been fun (except for the miscalculation with not accounting for the time to make cotton as an intermediate product last winter). Could a drag-and-drop event be brought into the regular cycle of events with expansion supplies/tools/diamonds as prizes? They offered a great change of pace to the typical events exactly because no one could know what the requested items were ahead of time.

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Originally Posted by farmerClem

After the nastiness on this forum when we missed the goal, I am not surprised that they never want to do them again.

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Originally Posted by Haystacker

Yea, I remember those days. So-called "positive" threads were started to combat all the "negative" threads. Players from the far reaches of the Earth who never posted before came on here just to complain. SC employees were apparently on vacation during the mayhem. It was good times!!! The forum was ALIVE!! Hated those drag/drop events tho :smirk: XD

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As for the Christmas event done then.... You had to add 100 clothes. As i calculated, we then had a couple of days in which we would be awake 24/7 to be able to produce enough clothes. So personal goals weren't reachable without using Tom/diamond even if your machines were fully mastered. That was wrong calculation. I think goals must be reachable. Then people are going to try get the goal.

2nd the global goal was som 330 million. We never had such a goal and by far that wasn't reachable. That's why people were complaining here.

Setting reachable personal goals without using diamonds AND global goals that can be made. I'm assured that people saw they couldn't reach the personal goal, so they stopped. Ow... and working 24/7 in Christmas time was no good assumption either.

I really like a box game with easter. But first look if personal goals are reachable. If they are, many more people are going to compete. :D